Shoe stretcher



v June 1937' J. J. SCHILL SHOE STRETCHER Filed M y 1936 Patented June 22,1937

ome STATES PATENT OFFICE John J. Schiller, Cicero, Ill.

Application'May 5, 1936, Serial No. 17,999

. 7 Claims.

This invention relates to devices for stretching boots and shoes and its object is to render and 1 Figure 2 is a section on line 2-2 of Figure 3 'showing the'inner fiat surface with expansion sings and hand rod carrier and metal tube axis assembly.

engage the recessed converging wedge surfaces ll, l2, l3 and It, respectively which'form openings as indicated, which openings are formed by slotting or mortising' into the respective-inner flat surface of the wooden members I and 2. Rotation ofrod 8 causes wooden members I and'2 to separate and move outwardly, parallel to each other, along the metal tube axis 5, thus creating a uniform stretching operation.

The wooden members i and 2 are brought back to a closed position and normally held in place by a coil spring I placed inside of the metal tube axis 5, metal disks or plugs'9 and being attached to each end of the spring and countersunk in the outer edges of the wooden members to thereby normally pull Said wooden members i and 2' together.

The invention is not to be understood as re claim as new and desire to secure by Letters rotatably mounted on said rod in spaced apart position to move in said spaced apart recesses respectively, the rotation of said rod in one direction being adapted to move said expansion 'slugs forwardly to separate said members.

3. In a shoe stretcher, or the like, a pair of wooden members movable with respect to each other and having a substantially flat side adjacent each other, each said member having a forwardly and inwardly converging recess at its rear 15 Figure 3 is a plan view, partly broken away.- Patent is: 15 Figure a c n l V On l of 1. In a shoe stretcher, a pair of wooden memure 2 Showing h nd r d rri r d me tube bers, each thereof having a flat side opposed axis ass b y, nd coil Spring W h ta disks to the other, said members having a-t'ransverse attached to each end. 4 aperture therethrough; a metal tube in said Figure 5 s p pe of hand rod carrier aperture, said metal tube forming a guide means a d metal tube axis e vfor movement of said members with respect to Figure 6 iS a P p v V w Of e P each other; a threaded bearing member mounted sion slug. over said tube; a hand operable rod having a The Shoe form Shaped Wooden members I and threaded portion threaded in-said bearing member '2 are transversely apertured a d S da y fitted and having a thrust member secured thereon on 2a 011 a metal tube 1 5 and are Separated n each side of said bearing member; said wooden m ve o ly y e expansion Slugs 3 and members having converging recesses opening on As ndi ated in t d a y of said said fiat side opposite to each other; and a pair p n n slugs has two opp i curved surfaces of wedge-shaped expansion slugs'mounted about co ve toward ea h Othersaid rod and said thrust member, said expansion A threaded rod 8' with a handle 8a passes lugs being moved longitudinally upon rotation through an internally threaded bearing or car' of dh d rier 6 mounted integrally and at right angles on 2. In a shoe stretcher, a pair of members havt e metal tube axis A11 expansion Slug 3 is ing a metal tube for an axis; a transverse metal placed before the bearing 6, and slug an attached tube; a coil spring in said tube connecting said 35 to he od beyond the a both S u s moving members; a metal disk attached to each end of a forward or reversely as the rod is rotated, with id spring and engaging said memb t t respect to the wooden members. As indicated ign of said spring being adapted to move said in F 3 and each Ofthe Slugs 3 and has a members to a closed position; saidmembers each 40 vertical aperture therethrough. Thrust ,collars -having a pair of spaced apart re e th rein, 40 3a and 4a a e Securely mounted on Tod 8 and the recesses of one member converging toward tate n Sa d apertures respectively of Said Slugs the corresponding recesses in the other member;

3 and 5 to y impart longitudinal moveabearing member securely mounted on said transm nt to s Slugs w e d is rotated- When verse tube; on actuable rod threaded in said the rod8 is rotated, the expansion slugs 3 and 4 bearing member; n pair of expansign slugs end and a forwardly and inwardly converging recess substantially mid-way between its ends, the recesses of each said members substantially coinciding and converging toward the corresponding opposite recesses in the opposite mem ber, said members having a transverse aperture, a metal guide tube in said transverse aperture, an internally threaded bearing member disposed substantially perpendicularly of said tube; disks at the opposite openings of said transverse aperture; a spring in said tube and connecting said disks to exert a pulling together movement of said wooden members; a rod having one end threaded and threadingly engaging said bearing member; a pair of wedge-shaped slugs mounted in spaced apart relation on said rod, said rod being rotatable with respect to said slugs, said slugs being adapted to move longitudinally with said rod to cause separation of said wooden members. v

4. In a shoe stretcher, two co-incident wooden members adapted to form, when combined, a foot portion, said members having fiat sides opposed to eachother and each member having a pair of spaced apart recesses in each thereof converging towardthe opposite corresponding recesses respectively in the other member," said recesses opening on 'said'flat side, said members having a transverse aperture therethrough; a guide tube extending through said aperture; a spring in said guide tube and connected to said members respectively to exert a pulling together stress thereon; a bearing member mounted adjacent said guide tube and normally within the forward coincident recesses; a manually actuable rod threaded in said bearing member; a pair of spaced apart wedge-shaped slugs mounted on said rod, each of said slugs converging towards its forward end and having an aperture therethrough; a thrust collar secured on said rod in each of said apertures of said slugs, the rotation of said rod being adapted to thrust said slugs longitudinally and either forwardly or rearward ly, the forward movement of said slugs being adapted to separate said woodenmembers.

5. In a shoe stretcher comprising two co-incident members having a transverse aperture therethrough and each thereof having a pair of spaced .apart recesses, therecesses of one of said members converging toward the'correspo-nding opposite recesses in the other of said members; a guide tube in said transverse aperture; a spring having its opposite ends connected to said "members respectively; a threaded bearing-member; a manually actuable rod having a threaded portion vthreaclingly engaging said bearing member; a forward wedge-shaped slug movable in said forward recesses, said slug having an aperture therein and being rotatably secured with respect to the forward end of said rod; an expansion slug rotatably secured with respect to said rod and adapted to move in the rearward recess of said members; rotation of said rod being.

adapted to move said slugs longitudinally.

6. In a shoe stretcher, a pair of members having a metal tube for an axis, a transverse metal tube; a coil spring in said tube connecting said members; a metal disk attached to each end of' apart recesses respectively, each of said slugs having an aperture therethrough, a thrust collar secured on said rod and rotatable in said aperture of each said expansion slug, the rotation of said rod in one direction being adapted to move said expansion slugs forwardly to separate said members.

'7. In a shoe stretcher comprising a pair of wooden members, each having a flat side opposite the other and each having a pair of spaced apart recesses opening on said flat side, and having a transverse aperture therein the recesses in one member converging toward the corresponding recesses in the other member; a tube mounted in said aperture; 'a spring in said tube and connecting said members and adapted to pull said members together; a, bearing membermounted between said separable members; a rod having a threaded portion threadingly engaging said bearing member; a pair of wedge-shaped expansion slugs movable in said recesses respectively, each of said slugs having a substantially flat upper and lower surface and forwardly converging'opposite sides and having a vertically extending aperture therethrough, said rod extending longitudinally through said spaced apart expansion slugs; and a thrustcollar secured about said rod and rotatable in said vertical aperture ofeach said expansion slugs, the rotation of said rod being adapted to separate said members.

JOHN J. scnnma. 

